You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

I think in terms of businesses, in terms of things that are really big and marry technology with entertainment. That's where I like to spend my time.